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🗓️ 24 February 2025
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Three distinct childhood memories—from an art-carnival creator, a food writer, and a horror master—illuminate how the “luna parks” of our childhoods can live in our imaginations for our entire lives.
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1:26.1 | I recently went to see the Luna Luna exhibit here in New York |
1:29.7 | City at the shed. I was so excited. I'd been wanting to see this art carnival ever since I learned |
1:37.0 | about it. The brainchild of artist Andre Heller, Luna Luna first opened in 1987 in Hamburg, Germany, as an actual outdoor fairground, |
1:48.6 | with rides, games, and attractions that had been transformed by contemporary artists like |
1:54.6 | Jean-Michel Basquiat, Salvador Dali, Sonia Delaney, Keith Herring, Andre Heller, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, and Kenny Sharp. |
2:05.1 | The name Luna Luna comes from the term Luna, a term for a small local carnival. |
2:11.7 | The term comes from the original Luna Park that stood in Coney Island in New York City in 1903. |
2:19.4 | After the original Luna Luna Fairground closed, the park's treasures were packed up, |
2:25.1 | and because of a variety of complications were forgotten in storage for 36 years in 44 |
2:33.5 | giant shipping containers in the Texas desert. Very few people remembered that |
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